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Photoshop Tutorial: Kindle Screensaver
// March 24th, 2012 // 1 Comment » // Graphic Design
I’ve started to create kindle screensavers because I was sick of the stock ones. The above video is how I did it. (If you’re curious about how to use custom screensavers on your kindle, here’s the tutorial that I used.) Here’s the Kindle screensavers I’ve done for Michael Sullivan’s ‘Riyria Revelations’.
Read more...Riyria Revelations Kindle Screensavers
// March 23rd, 2012 // No Comments » // Graphic Design
I really like book covers. The normal Kindle screensavers are fine but I prefer the look of the books that I am currently reading. After a quick kindle diagnostic mode, I was able to put custom screensavers on my kindle. Here is the images I came up with for the ‘Ryria Revelations‘ series by Michael Sullivan. [...]
Read more...Kindle Screensaver for Theft of Swords by Michael Sullivan
// March 21st, 2012 // No Comments » // Graphic Design
UPDATE: I’ve updated this kindle screensaver so that it’s the actual cover. I used photoshops ‘content-aware fill’ to draw content on the side gutters. I’ve been drudging through some uninspired urban and traditional fantasy books looking for a new book to love. I’ve found that in Michael Sullivan’s ‘Riyria Reveletaions‘ series with the first book ‘Theft of [...]
Read more...Our first FOCUS video
// February 21st, 2012 // No Comments » // Backflip FIlms
UPDATE: It looks like this was taken down. We’ll see if we can find it elsewhere. John and I went to Baltimore last month for the FOCUS leadership conference. It was an amazing time with great people. We had the chance to film over the course of the weekend for two videos. Here’s the first: [...]
Read more...Cupcakery for fun
// November 17th, 2011 // 1 Comment » // Backflip FIlms
My daughters were in a photo shoot put on by Three Cheers Creative. John’s (Backflip Films partner) son Rowan was also in the shoot. Being filmmakers, we decided to bring our video equipment along and shoot the shoot. The cupcakery was very tight, especially when you add 9 adults and 5 kids into the entrance, [...]
Read more...Apple’s ‘Let’s Talk iPhone’ – Predictions
// October 4th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
UPDATE: Looks like i was right on a few things (notes below). Read all about the new iPhone here: iPhone 4S officially announced: lands October 14th starting at $199 in sizes up to 64GB, coming to Sprint In three and a half hours we will all be sitting dutifully in front of our computer screens [...]
Read more...Giving back
// September 28th, 2011 // No Comments » // Backflip FIlms
John and I had the privilege to be hired to create a promotional video for St. Paul’s University Catholic Center at the University of Wisconsin Madison. John and I met at St. Paul’s through our involvement in various programs and groups. Take a look:
Read more...Superman is a douchebag? DC: New 52, Action Comics #1
// September 10th, 2011 // No Comments » // Comics
Little known fact, I’m a big comic book fan. I have some transient tastes, but have usually stuck with Amazing Spider-Man and Uncanny X-Men through the years. I, like many young men, got into comics by relating to the material. Be it the geeky underdog of Peter Parker in Spider-Man, or super-powered comradery like X-Men. I [...]
Read more...Update to Backflip Films website
// September 6th, 2011 // No Comments » // Backflip FIlms, Web Development, Wordpress
We’ve updated our video production website Backflip Films, hopefully it will be the last update for a few months ;). We really wanted a featured rotator on the front page and that sparked many more changes. This should also help with SEO since we can put who we are front and center, and then just rotate [...]
Read more...Skinning LibGuides take 2
// August 15th, 2011 // No Comments » // Uncategorized
At the Library we use LibGuides so librarians can create research guides based on topics. We call our implementation ‘Research Guides’ to be as explicit as possible with our terminolgy. You can find our guides here: http://researchguides.library.wisc.edu. This is an example of their default interface and colors: LibGuides offers a basic design with some [...]
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